Jackson Mississippi

Experts: Reparations Are Workable and Should Be Provided

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentMay 3, 2019

“With the racial divide stoked by President Donald Trump’s racial bias, the need for some healing among the races is a progressive and necessary policy and redress and reparations promote this healing so that we can move toward a less factionalized, less racially divided country,” Minami said.

National News Political

Rep. Bennie Thompson Wins Efforts to Make Medgar Evers Home National Monument 

Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor March 21, 2019

Because of the work of Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the Evers’ house at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, will now become a national historic landmark. The house where Medgar Evers’ was fatally shot was built in the first planned middle-class subdivision for African-Americans in Mississippi after World War II. Thompson has been working on the honor for Evers for over ten years. 